From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 11 11: 2:36 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E91637B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:02:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA43369; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0BJ28W74565; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:02:08 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Doug Barton , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <20010111110207.A74547@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010111103317.A74363@dragon.nuxi.com> <8537.979239256@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <8537.979239256@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:54:16PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:54:16PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The entropy seed files need to be in the root partition because a seeded > entropy device is needed _very_ early on. Specifically, it's needed by > at least mount_mfs(8). If we wait 'til /var is mounted, we have to wait > for everything in /etc/fstab to be mounted, so you end up with > mount_mfs(8) blocking on the entropy device. Doh! > Hope that helps. Yes, thank you for the reminder. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message